The woman in a shapeless, pink dress picks peaches, carrying them in a large cardboard box. She reaches, pulls, drops each fruit in, one after the other, moving slowly around the old tree whose branches stretch beyond her view when she stands beneath them. Her hair is bound into a roll the size and […]
Pat Hanahoe-Dosch
Pat Hanahoe-Dosch’s poems have been published in The Paterson Literary Review, Rattle, The Atticus Review, Panoplyzine, Confrontation, Rust + Moth, American Literary Review, Apple Valley Review, The Red River Review, San Pedro River Review, Apt, among many others. Her books of poems, The Wrack Line, and Fleeing Back, can be found on Amazon.com or the FutureCycle Press website. Her short stories have been published in The Peacock Journal, In Posse Review, Sisyphus, Manzano Mountain Review, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal, among others. Check out her website at https://pahanaho.wixsite.com/pathanahoedosch and Twitter @PHanahoeDosch
Meditation on a Corpse
A light wind ripples the smooth surface, giving the ocean a ribbed chest. Below, exoskeletons of clawed, consumed creatures roll and slide with the currents. Gulls circle, clam shells pile up, and the tide ripples inward, toward the bulkhead, houses, paved streets and gutters. It won’t reach across the sand that far, surely, not today. […]